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Gabriela Bustelo

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Gabriela Bustelo
Bustelo at Altea, summer of 2014
Bustelo at Altea, summer of 2014
Born (1962-05-18) May 18, 1962 (age 62)
Madrid, Spain
OccupationWriter, Journalist.
Alma materComplutense University of Madrid
Period1996-present
GenreDirty realism, Science fiction, Postmodern literature, Roman-a-clef
Literary movementGeneration X (Spain)

Gabriela Bustelo (Madrid, 1962) is a Spanish author, journalist and translator.

Biography

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Included in the 1990 neorealist generation of Spanish novelists, Bustelo made her debut with Veo Veo (Anagrama, 1996), which placed her in the literary Generation X[1][2][3] She shares with José Ángel Mañas, Ray Loriga and Lucía Etxebarria a sharp literary style influenced by commercial culture — advertising, pop music, film and television.[4] Gabriela Bustelo is one of the few Spanish women who have written science fiction.[5] Her second novel Planeta Hembra (RBA, 2001), located in New York, is a dystopia that envisaged —almost two decades ago— the underlying conflict between women and men that in the 21st century has become the MeToo Movement as a global battle of the sexes. La historia de siempre jamás (El Andén, 2007) portrays the immorality and shallowness of European political elites. In 1996 she began to write pieces on art and culture for publications such as Vogue and Gala (magazine), having penned political columns for fifteen years in national print media and digital newspapers. She contributed cultural articles to Colombian magazine "Arcadia" (revistaarcadia.com) from 2005 to 2015.

Translations

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Bustelo has translated to Spanish the works of classics such as Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Rudyard Kipling, Oscar Wilde, Edgar Allan Poe and Mark Twain; and well-known contemporaries including Raymond Chandler, Muriel Spark and Margaret Atwood.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Odartey-Wellington, Dorothy, 'Urban Fictions/Popular Fictions: Gabriela Bustelo's Veo veo and Ismael Grasa's De Madrid al cielo', in "Contemporary Spanish Fiction: Generation X", (Associated University Press), 2008
  2. ^ Corey, Rubin, "Mapping a space-character interface in the narratives of Spain's Generation X: Scorn for a lost past in Gabriela Bustelo's Veo Veo", (University of Iowa), 2013
  3. ^ Molinaro, Nina, 'Watching, Wanting, and the Gen X Soundtrack of Gabriela Bustelo's Veo Veo'. In Henseler, Christine; Pope, Randolph D. (eds.). Generation X Rocks: Contemporary Peninsular Fiction, Film, and Rock Culture", (Vanderbilt UNiversity Press), 2007
  4. ^ Henseler, Christine, 'The Real World of Big Brother in Veo Veo by Gabriela Bustelo', in "Spanish Fiction in the Digital Age: Generation X Remixed", (Palgrave Macmillan). pp. 132–146. ISBN 978-0-2301-0291-0
  5. ^ Ketz, Victoria L., 'Biotech, Barcelo, Bustelo: Reproduction, Motherhood and Gendered Hierarchies in Spanish Science Fiction', in "A Laboratory of Her Own: Women and Science in Spanish Culture", (Vanderbilt University Press), 2021